Holy Myrrhbearers is an Orthodox Christian monastic community for women.  Founded in 1977, we have been situated since 1983 in Otsego County in the scenic upper-Catskill region of New York State.  Inspired by the desert mothers and fathers, we model our lives on their life and witness, as those called to be monastics in our own time and place.  Drawn from all Orthodox jurisdictions, we are a stavropighial monastery under the Metropolitan and Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), witnessing to the unity we share in Christ.

Within the monastery's framework of daily liturgical and personal prayer, we work as farmers, artists, and craftsmen, and welcome guests and pilgrims.  On our 220 acres of pastures, woods, and wetlands, we raise sheep, goats and chickens. We offer you the results of our own labors through this store. Thank you for your support!